Jindal Versus Obama
Expounding on the comparison between Obama’s speech last night and Jindal’s rebuttal speech would only add to the infinite surplus of micro-dissection rhetoric between the two speeches. The micro-dissection has been focused on Obama’s oratory prowess in contrast to Jindal’s lack of skills at eloquently vomiting deception. If Obama and Jindal had switched transcripts, Obama would still have received a roaringly applause–as it is highly suspect that neither he nor his nescience hordes of invertebrates understood the content of his barren speech. Grievously, the content of the two speeches was never compared, which bodes well for a contemporary Democrat.
After watching the two speeches, I hold that only one circumspect comparison can be valid: this was a contrast of style versus substance.
With a macro-dissection of Obama’s speech regarding the facts he adopted to clarify his talking points–he lied. His facts can be invalidated with only a cursory inspection and a calculator. His sweeping and grandiloquent rhetoric encompassing a fix for every real, perceived, and possible problem of this country was hollow, implausible, and outright fabricated. As Obama praised the ability and resilience of the American people to solve past challenges with their fortitude and ingenuity, he, in the same breath, declared that the only salvageable hope of rehabilitating this country’s ailments is through the rapid expansion of the federal government under his tenure and his unprecedented economic stratagem.
What I witnessed, again, was a person demonstrating a suspect intelligence, a suspect set of principles, and an unadulterated ignorance of American history; what I witnessed, again, was a person who can take an aggregation of meaningless words, written by someone else, put them on a teleprompter, and cause an illiterate to swoon.
Bobby Jindal, conversely, is not a practiced orator at the national level, as witnessed last night. But with a macro-dissection of his speech, oratory skills aside, Bobby Jindal spoke of an America still grounded in the principles of the founding fathers: summarizing that this current government cannot help the American people except by getting out of the way and facilitating their helping themselves an approach that is true to the history of this country.
Bobby Jindal may not possess the style of Barack Obama, but he does possess attributes that Obama does not have, and cannot acquire: he possesses the competency to lead, as he has demonstrated in Louisiana, which in the month of December was the only state in the union to add jobs rather than lose them; and he is a leader of demonstrated substance.
This country was not founded on style, did not win the Revolutionary War on style, did not win WWI on style, did not win WWII on style, and did not become the most powerful nation on this planet based on style; it was done with substance, the very substance that Barack Obama and the Democrats in this nation’s congress woefully lack.
Comments (6)
I think the delivery can be solved in 3 years. I’d prefer a debate anyways.
Good words Jim. The Obama swoon conitinues and there is absolutely no substance or truth in the majority of his words. However, he is the proverbial “silver-tongued devil.” I’m sick and tired of hearing talking heads say what a great speech he gave….did he say anything important? It’s all lies, ropes and mirrors.
Wake Up America!!!!
Form over substance. Jim you said it all. Obama reminds me of the used car salesman who tries to sell you a defective product and thinks he can do it with words. When you go home you wonder what he said. Jindal, on the other hand, is the sincere person who tells you like it is. His life story alone is what the American dream is all about.
effin a man effin a
The problem is Jindal made big mistakes. He had to be out of his mind to mention Katrina as if it was a typical everyday problem that citizens can solve by themselves. I’m sure he was trying to make a point but it didn’t work in the current environment. Then he went on about volcano monitoring as if that was the worst part of a stimulus bill. It made him seem like he’s against weather forecasting and other sensible expenditures. He wasn’t the same Jindal we saw last summer and it’s too bad.
Phil Hood,
Interesting that you state that the bulk of Katrina’s problems cannot be solved by citizens or the local and state. It is a matter of initiative, which the bulk of New Orleans do not possess. Read:
http://insidedateline.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/15/142251.aspx
As far as Jindal being against volcano study, this is allegedly a stimulus bill, but is actually a spending bill with over 90% of the spending having zero effect on stimulating the economy. The volcano spending and other spending can be addressed in another bill.